BBC Music Magazine

June 2025 |

Cover: And the winners are… We present the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2025, complete with interviews with the winning artists. Left-field learning Nikolai Lugansky shares with Tom Service his unlikely route to becoming a globally acclaimed piano virtuoso. And relax… Claire Jackson explores how music has been shown to bring a sense of calm; plus, our ten works to de-stress to. Grand Dame As the mighty organ of Notre-Dame sounds again after the fire of 2019, John Allison enjoys a Parisian visit.